SteveB

Premium pellets made from pine are denser, have more btu's per lb, and produce less ash. It is fact - read any of the test reports done by accredited labs to the PFI (pellet fuels institute). Any manufacturer belonging to the PFI will have the reports available and the PFI logo on the bags. 30 years in the hearth/alternate energy business - I only use the softwood pellets. We only sell hardwood at my store because the average customer cannot understand that the processed pellet is far different then burning cordwood where hardwood is far superior.

Curran pellets should be readily available up by you Bubba - mill is in Massena. Their softwood is one of the best on the market.

Ceramic lump charcoal cooker/smoker. Anyone using one here? They store I am working for sells them, but I have not used one personally. They are huge in the south and I know several competition BBQ teams use them.

Never understood why why vegetarians disguise there soybeans as meat.

A few get shot every year in the Homer/Tully area. But, as I said above, just about every one was a target of an opportunity that presented itself and not because someone was out hunting them.

Because when seconds count, the police may only be minutes away.

OK to shoot as long as it's not in a cemetery and you are in your street cloths.

I could be paid enough to do a lot of things. Hunting with Nugent would never be one of them.

Cant make a point without cursing?

In my mind it is fine IF you talk to all the surrounding landowner and work out retrieval rights prior to needing them. It is not a question of if a hit deer will leave a 5 acre patch to die, but rather when.

For the most part there are so few that they are all but impossible to target. Very mobile, travel a lot and move when pressured at all. Not patternable like deer at all. The ones taken are just targets of opportunity.

Skillet - no problem. Passion is a good thing

To me compassion is far different then remorse or regret - even fleetingly.

I like this much better and can fully respect someone for how it effects them. I can't respect being told someone needs help for not feeling the same way.

vizslas - I'm with you. Remorse and regret are negative emotions. Life throws enough at you to not seek out negativity. The day I feel remorse or regret for a kill, will be the last time I go hunting. I've been killing my meals for 55 years since the age of 5. I would have stopped a long time ago if I had regret every time I did so. And I would have stopped eating meat as I see no difference between doing it myself or doing it by proxy - which you do every time you take a bite of store bought meat.

So jimbo doesn't like the bows that started the archery seasons. The only thing that opens the door to a bad shot is the shooter - regardless of the equipment used.

Great post Joe!! Should be good for another 5 pages.

If someone is injured by backyard archery practice, it is almost always someone other then the participants. Comparing a non participant accident rate to that of participant is misleading and useless. The only way for backyard archery practice to be considered in a neighborhood environment is to only allow the backstops to be placed against the shooters own home. And of course they need to be wearing full BO.

Yes - in all fall gun seasons.

Making it mandatory will not ensure a higher compliance rate then it is currently especially with our enforcement arm stretched as thin as it is. Think how many people you see driving with a cell phone to their ear or without a seat belt. And those trespassing or poaching are not going to be concerned with a BO law. I have heard that NYS voluntary rate of BO is actually higher then many states where it is mandatory - what makes anyone think making it mandatory here will result in any real rise in the rate of usage? We cannot legislate common sense and anyone thinking so is delusional in that area. A new law that will result in no statistical change in the accident rate is nothing more then another "feel good" law, of which we are overburdened with now.

7J - one farm 5 does - 3 reg, 2 mz. I took this because the population needed it - the farm had 5 dmap's so there where 3 other's taken as well.

Our state record is better than many states where BO is mandated. Bubba could be right about those not seeing BO assuming it is safe.

I hunt with both and top range is 30yds with both. I can hold a 5" group at 200 yds with my Triumph. I doubt I could do that at 100 with a flintlock - although I know some can. Bottom line - I support 2 seasons: All bows in bow. All guns in gun. Otherwise possibly a primitive season for bows and guns - recurve/longbow and flintlocks only.

There was an early inline - but I doubt it could compare it to a SS Omega with 120gr of BH209, shotgun primer, sabotted expander rifle bullet topped with a 3 to 9 power ranging scope. Doc and Steve are right - the MZ season is just an expansion of the gun season. As stated by many, more hunters every year in the regular season (shotgun areas) are going to mz for the entire season. They aren't doing it to handicap themselves but rather because they are seeing it is more effective and really pretty easy with modern mz loader equipment and supplies. I fully admit to being one of those who take advantage of it. No need for an extended or even a mz season at all unless it does go primitive - just sell an extra tag. And to me that would be flintlock only. Never shot one but would get one if there was a season.

Federal and CCI are the hottest.